> It is interesting to note that DragonFly has had variant symlnks for > a long time, but we haven't actually found a use for them yet.
Yes, Matt. Some time ago i've ported Df's variant symlinks too :) http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/varsym/ This task was declared on the ideas page: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-magicsymlinks But i don't see an interest in this feature among commiters. :( > Originally I envisioned using variant symlinks as part of a packaging > system to allow package environments to be built on the fly, thus > allowing multiple versions of libraries to coreside and not have the > 'you have to upgrade everything to install one new thing' problem. > But that was before we adopted pkgsrc. Pkgsrc doesn't use varsyms, > so... Yes, i think varsyms can be usefull in build enviroments. Somebody spoke that varsyms can be usable in a cluster or jailed enviroments. But i think, that it is necessary to change a priority of levels. The system level must have a hight priority, and unprivileged users can not override system variables. For a NetBSD's magiclinks i see only one scope - build enviroment. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
